Christening Gown with Lace and Tucked Panel

This stunning gown features a front panel that consists of lace insertions coupled with tucked strips. The laces used in this gown are Spanish Cluny laces and French Valenciennes laces (floral). The panel is edged in Spanish Cluny insertion.

 

The yoke consists of tucked strips and cluny insertion. The neck is finished with a narrow cluny edging. The bottom of the front and back yoke has cluny insertion applied horizontally.

The skirt bottom consists of lace bands and is finished with a floral edging which is applied flat. The gown has a built-in liner also edged in the floral lace edge.

The back yoke view.

Full back view.

This gown is available for sale at https://www.etsy.com/listing/151807786/christening-gown-with-lace-and-tucked.

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Christening Gown with Tucked Bands and a Puffing Band

The skirt of this beautiful christening gown features two tucked bands and a puffing band. This gown has a finished length of forty-two inches.

 

The front yoke has a center puffing strip with pin tucks sewn horizontally on the outer edges. Lace insertion separates these elements.

 

The back yoke consists of lace insertion and pin tucks.

 

The fabric ruffle at the bottom of the skirt has three pin tucks running the length of the ruffle and is finished with wide lace edging.

 

Here is a close-up view of the fancy skirt.

 

The gown is completed with the addition of a T-cap bonnet featuring the same lace insertion and pin tucks as the gown.

 

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Christening Dresses for Twin Babies

These dresses were designed by Sarah Howard Stone for her twin great grandchildren. The gowns are similarly designed but feature different laces. The yokes have embroidery on the center front yoke along with pintucks. The back yoke has pintucks running horizontally across the width. The skirt has two sets of five pintucks finished with a flat lace ruffle.

Dress #1 - Full View

 

Dress #1 - Front Yoke

 

Dress #1 - Back Yoke

 

Dress #1 - Skirt

 

Dress #2 - Front Yoke

 

Dress #2 - Back Yoke

 

Dress #2 - Skirt

 

 

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Slip Created to Coordinate with an Italian Christening Gown

This beautiful linen christening gown was purchased in Italy. The center of the yoke had a tulip embroidered on it. At the client's request, I removed the flower and embroidered an Old English letter "J" in its place. The monogram was embroidered in white.

 

The gown was buttoned at the yoke in the back, but the center back of the skirt was left open. To keep sweet little legs from peeking through, we decided to create a slip that mimicked the skirt design.

The skirt of the slip incorporates 1/4 inch pressed tucks with a band of lace insertion and a flat lace ruffle. An empire yoke was used on the slip. The slip was made in Swiss batiste.

 

 

 

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Christening Gown with Antique Lace and Pintucks

What a delight this gown was to make! In the nineteen years I have been sewing and working with heirloom quality materials, I have not come across lace like this before. It truly is exquisite! I wish I could tell you more about its origin, but I know very little about it other than it is very old lace. The lace is cotton and it is a beautiful shade of buttery ecru. The lace bands are three inches wide as is the matching lace edge on the bottom. In between the lace bands are two 4 inch wide bands of pintucks. Each band has seventeen pinktucks on it. The gown is made with white Swiss batiste. Both the front and back yokes have pintucks running vertically with insertion across the bottom edge. The sleeves are long sleeves finished with entredeux beading and gathered two inch wide edging. The christening dress has a Swiss batiste liner to give it fullness. The gown has a finished length of 36 inches. This dress also has a matching T-cap bonnet made with same lace.

 

 

 

 

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Christening Gown with Tucks and Geometric Lace

This is a christening gown made in white Swiss batiste and trimmed in antique laces. The gown features a tucked yoke with embroidery, three lace bands, two tucked bands, and a fabric ruffle. The gown measures thirty-six inches in length and it has a matching T-cap bonnet to compliment it.

The yoke has tucks and embroidery on the front and back. The bottom of the yoke is finished with lace insertion which was also used in the bands on the skirt. The embroidery contains bullion roses and leaves in ecru thread. I did not add lace edging around the yoke in order to keep a more tailored look.

The gowns do not have buttons or snaps to close them. They are closed with beauty bars/pins. These pins are decorative pins usually made from gold and embellished with pearls or engraving.

The skirt consists of three lace bands and two tucked bands. The tucks were made on a machine using a tucking foot, two spools of thread, and a double needle.

The ruffle is embellished with tucks as well. Another way to embellish a skirt is to add lace insertion and cut out the fabric from behind the lace. I used this method on my daughters' christening gown.

Here is the matching T-Cap bonnet I made to coordinate with the gown.

This christening gown has SOLD.

 

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